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which means that the technique has a higher likelihood of being completed than your future opponent countering it. If you have more reps drilling a technique and more reps practicing a technique than your opponent has countering a technique, then the likelihood of you completing it against him or her is a lot higher than the chances of him being able to defend a technique.

teach them jiu-jitsu and bring them to jiu-jitsu with you. This will also help you because you can practice together at home. You can make it more of a family affair and you’ll be able to train more.

13. Staying Motivated and Developing a Good Drilling Work Ethic
The best way to stay motivated and develop a good work ethic is to have someone that you look up to, that you want to be like. For a lot of people, that person is Marcelo Garcia because he is a smaller person. He would constantly compete in the absolute divisions and beat some of the well known bigger grapplers. He was able to do this because he had superb technique. In terms of getting motivated, when you have a person like Marcelo Garcia who worked ridiculously hard to get to where he is at, it makes you want to work harder because you want to achieve something similar. Sometimes people don’t want to achieve what Marcelo Garcia achieved. Sometimes for the average hobbyist, doing things like that is just too much and that’s okay.

“Everybody does not have to be a World Champion”
But if you feel like your work ethic is slipping and you need a reason to stay motivated, then look for someone you can look to that has the abilities that you want to acquire. Find someone who has accomplished the things that you want to accomplish. The best form of compliment is imitation, so if you imitate your idols’ training module or regimen

then you are most likely going to accomplish at least half of his or her level of success. Why reinvent the wheel when it has already been invented. A wise man once said if you want to be successful, you don’t surround yourself with losers, you surround yourself with successful people and you will learn very quickly to be successful.

14. The Golden Ratio
The ratio of time spent drilling vs. sparring, the golden ratio, really depends on how often you're able to get in there and train per week. Usually for any given session, thirty minutes of drilling time will suffice. It also depends if you're a quality driller versus a quantity driller. The quality driller may not be able to fit 800 reps into a thirty-minute time frame but the reps he is able to do, he is able to get something out of every single one of them. A quantity driller is just racing to achieve a certain set of numbers so he can brag about it to his friends later on in the dressing rooms. “I did 5 million reps of this today. How many reps did you get?” The quantity driller's road to the mastery of the technique will be so much longer. This is simply because he's not internalizing all of the hidden concepts between the techniques. Thirty minutes for drilling should typically be enough. Try to get a minimum of 100 reps into this time frame. The ideal ratio of drilling versus rolling (the golden ratio) also depends on what type of BJJ practitioner you are, whether you are a competitor or what is referred to as a 40+ grappler, a regular room grappler who doesn't compete very much or a regular room grappler who doesn't compete at all. The ratio also depends on the season. If you're competing for a world title or any major title, you would have to drill a lot, until the game day. But, once you're about a month away, your training is mostly about rolling and dynamic drilling. You will further hone in on and determine which of your techniques are

the most effective. If, by this point you don't know the techniques and haven't put in the necessary reps, dynamic drilling would be pointless. If you don’t put the time and effort into drills and reps then all you are doing is stacking bad habits on top of previous bad habits. At that point you would have to go back and deprogram yourself from all that bad drilling. To avoid bad habits, it is best if you start your training with good habits right from the start. Get this:

“The ideal ratio is pretty much relative to whether or not you're a competitor.”
• If you're a competitor and you only compete a little bit locally, then 60/40 would be a pretty good split. • • If you don't compete, you can probably go as far as 70/30 The 40+ guys, if you compete, 60/40, if you don't compete then 70/30 is fine.

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The golden ratio for beginners

In the beginning phases of training, drilling is very, very important. Often times I see school owners allow beginners and newcomers to spar and to roll. Sometimes this is really sad to see because the beginners don't really have a concept of what it is exactly that they should be doing. There have been plenty of times where a new person goes to a BJJ school and they will be asked to roll and on top of the rolling they will ask, “what should I be doing here, what should I be doing there?” This is a good indicator that this person has no idea what they are doing. A new student should not be rolling or sparring. They should be taught a set sequence of moves to drill and they should practice these new skills and sequences before testing them with resistance or within live rolling. Some schools have a separate class for